AQA Business - 2.1.1 Management Leadership and decision making (Updated for 2024 AQA Spec)

Managers’ roles and responsibilities include setting objectives, analyzing, leading, making decisions, and reviewing.

Different management and leadership styles exist, each with its own influences.
The effectiveness of various management and leadership styles varies.
Theories of management and leadership styles include the Tannenbaum-Schmidt continuum and the Blake-Mouton grid.

• The Tannenbaum-Schmidt continuum categorizes leadership styles into four types: autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire, and participative.

• The Blake-Mouton grid categorizes management styles into four types: task-oriented, people-oriented, concern-oriented, and concern-oriented.

• Decision-making involves both scientific decision-making based on data and intuition, and intuitive decision-making.

• Decision trees are valuable tools for decision-making, helping to analyze and visualize potential outcomes.

• Influences on decision-making include mission, objectives, ethics, external environment (including competition and resource constraints), and personal values.

• Examples of activities that involve decision trees include the Banana Moon activity and the Appleton Farm case study.

• Worksheets for decision-making and decision tree analysis are also available.